Hivechess Tournament Round 1: @sawko was the winner!

Dear Chess fans,

the first round of Season 8 was a 5+1 Blitz arena round with 20 players - a new record! This time we had an average rating of 1919 (second highest ever) with no less than 12 players with a >2000 rating! We could welcome several new players like Hive account@tungphon (blackswan21) and Blacknight186 (no Hive user name yet) and also Hive account@samostically (ZGM_Samostically) after a long absence joined the Hivechess crowd.

Despite of the very strong field, Hive account@sawko could again land on the first spot. Congratulations! He was 100% going berserk, that gave him the extra points, and a higher number of games played. Second was Hive account@tungphon (blackswan21), followed by Hive account@eniolw.

The games of this round can be found here, in case you want to replay some of them.

Season 8: 17 Sep to 15 Oct 2021 / Ranking after first round:

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	Points
1	Hive account@sawko	CM sawkito	2466	1	10
2	Hive account@tungphong	blackswan21	2448	1	9
3	Hive account@eniolw	eniolw	2454	1	8
4	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	2158	1	7
5	Hive account@kreur	Kreur	2096	1	6
6	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	2098	1	5
7	Hive account@jaki01	jaki01	2377	1	4
8	Hive account@kintokris	jonbellionfan	2083	1	3
9	Hive account@pereu4ivatel	pereu4uwatch	2090	1	2
10	Hive account@schamangerbert	HerbyW	1769	1	1
11	Hive account@rodrook	rodrook	1525	1	0
12	?	Blacknight186	2002	1	0
13	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	1762	1	0
14	Hive account@maciejficek	XM9000	1539	1	0
15	Hive account@sammy00	migmag	1508	1	0
16	Hive account@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	1715	1	0
17	Hive account@zacherybinx	sirtetris	2019	1	0
18	Hive account@burnoutawesome	burnoutawesome	2073	1	0
19	Hive account@manncpt	Toful	1245	1	0
20	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	968	1	0

The rules you can look up in the announcement post.

See you next week!

Did anybody follow the Norway Chess 2021 Tournament? Magnus Carlsen is in top form, as it seems, but also youngster Alireza Firouzja played extremly well, having won his last 4 matches in a row!
Here are the final standings:

source: https://norwaychess.no/en/pairings-and-results-2021/